Transition Socialization Effectiveness: Year Three
Abstract
Organizations continuously bring in new recruits or employees and move employees to new positions, units, and/or locations. With these transitions comes the need for the individual to learn and adapt to the new role requirements. The organization must provide means for communicating and reinforcing the role requirements and, within limits, adapting to the new member. This learning-communicating-adapting process is what is meant by the socialization process. To the extent the socialization process is not successful, individuals may behave in unacceptable ways, reject the organization and leave, or withdraw psychologically. The lack of effective role behavior and excessive turnover in some organizations may well be linked to inadequacies in the socialization process. Given this premise, it becomes important for organizations, be they military, private sector, or public sector, to have a good understanding of the socialization process and the mechanisms available for facilitating successful socialization. The objective of this research program was to further contribute to the body of knowledge on socialization processes by focusing on transitions, particularly intraorganizational transfers. To this end, we have conducted two major longitudinal studies of transfer adjustment, and numerous other studies of related processes. Keywords: Transfer, relocation, mobility, socialization, satisfaction, adjustment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA157736
Entities
People
- C. D. Fisher
- J. B. Shaw
- R. W. Woodman
Organizations
- Texas A&M University